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DEBATE * USA - Border opening about two months away
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -Feb. 23, 2007: -- After years of roadblocks that all but prevented Mexico-domiciled trucks from operating throughout the U.S., the border will be opening to 100 Mexican motor carriers in two short months... One of the biggest sticking points keeping the border closed to Mexican-domiciled trucks has been who will inspect the trucks and where they will be inspected before they are allowed into the states... OOIDA officials learned the Department of Transportation already has a pretty good fix on 100 motor carriers for possible approval into the program... Of the 100 motor carriers, 70 already operate in the U.S. commercial zone – leaving 30 Mexican-domiciled carriers being considered with no experience operating on U.S. soil... Utilizing FMCSA data, OOIDA officials determined the agency shows there were more than 4.65 million incoming trucks to the US from Mexico in 2005. Those 4.65 million trucks represent the entire vehicle population that could be subjected to an inspection... Simple math indicates that the inspection rate of the entire available vehicle population is 3.9 percent. To put it another way, a Mexican truck has a 96.1 percent of not being inspected at any border crossing in the country... OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer said, the safety and security of U.S. motorists and truckers sharing American highways with trucks from Mexico can no more be assured now than it could in 2002 when Congress overwhelmingly told the Bush administration that safety had to be assured before the border opens... Spencer said not only are U.S. regulations on Americans more stringent in terms of verifying that a driver has been tested, but U.S. licenses can also be verified to show driving history, violations and compliance of any vehicle driven going back even a decade or longer. When enforcement officials run a Mexican CDL, the only information he can access will be that of previous operation in the U.S., not Mexico where a driver might have a rap sheet as along as your arm... Mexico has never had specific drug testing regulations or hours-of-service rules for its drivers that could be verified or enforced and still doesn’t... Spencer pointed out while Congress directed that states adopt laws on trucks with international shipments, few have done it and not a single state enforces these laws nor have their law enforcement officers ever been trained on what to enforce and how to assure compliance with U.S. law...
* Canada - Comment: The Mexicans are coming – but not everyone in the US is pleased
Washington,DC,USA -Truck News (CAN), by James Menzies -25 Feb 2007: -- ... The US government announced last week it would allow Mexican carriers to operate in the US. Those trucking firms would be subjected to inspections by US inspection officers. Currently, Mexican trucks are only allowed to operate within 20 miles of the US, where they must swap loads with US carriers... “This program will make trade with Mexico easier and keep our roads safe at the same time,” US Transportation Secretary, Mary Peters said. Mexican trucks could take to US highways as soon as 60 days from now under the ruling... OOIDA also said US enforcement officers cannot see a Mexican driver’s home record when they swipe a Mexican CDL – only their driving performance in the US will appear... “When enforcement officials run a Mexican CDL the only information he can access will be that of previous operation in the U.S., not Mexico where a driver might have a rap sheet as along as your arm,” added Spencer... The owner/op group is calling on Congress to put an end to the pilot project...
* Mexican trucks coming - Safety, smog concerns in trade test program
Washington,DC,USA -Los Angeles Daily News (LA,CAL), by LISA FRIEDMAN -24 Feb 2007: -- U.S. and Mexican leaders announced a test Friday to allow Mexican trucks full access to the state and the rest of the nation, a move that alarms air quality regulators who believe it will foul Southern California's air and crumble its roads... The one-year program allows an unlimited number of trucks from 100 Mexican companies to carry cargo beyond the current 25-mile border zone... Estimates vary widely on how much pollution would be generated by a sharp increase in the number of polluting diesel engines on the freeways... But one study predicted that Mexican trucks could add 50 tons per day of smog-forming emissions - more than the pollution generated by the region's 350 biggest industrial sources combined...
* Safety Advocates Say Move Endangers Motorists
San Diego,CA,USA -The Insurance Journal, by Leslie Miller -Feb 26, 2007: -- The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress... They said Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that will threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs and endanger motorists on the northern side of the Mexican border...
* India - Mexico to open new market for US
India -Fibre2fashion.com -Feb 26, 2007: -- U.S. trucks will for the first time be allowed to make deliveries in Mexico under a year-long pilot program that expands cross border trucking operations with Mexico, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced during a visit to truck inspection facilities in El Paso, Texas... U.S. trucks will get to make deliveries into Mexico while a select group of Mexican trucking companies will be allowed to make deliveries beyond the 20-25 mile commercial zones currently in place along the Southwest border. Secretary Peters said the new demonstration program was designed to simplify a process that currently requires Mexican truckers to stop and wait for U.S. trucks to arrive and transfer cargo. She said this process wastes money, drives up the cost of goods, and leaves trucks loaded with cargo idling inside U.S. borders...
* Mucho Mexican Trucks
Sherman Oaks,CA,USA -RushLimbaugh.com (subscription) -Feb 26, 2007: -- Well, this is going to tick you off if you haven't heard about it. "Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States," according to the plans being hatched in Washington... They've been out there for quite a while, but the news has only recently been made public, and it "drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress," not to mention the people in this country are upset over the open borders policy of much of the immigration proposals that are now flirting, percolating around in Congress... do "safety advocates" because you have trucks coming from Mexico. They're not governed by global warming emissions, transmission emissions, transmission rules...
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